Example sentences for: terrified

How can you use “terrified” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They will never meet 42-year-old Tranh Tran and her cash-strapped Westminster family, never hug the terrified 70-year-old woman who has just been evicted and never personally comfort the battered women seeking divorces but petrified of losing their immigration status.

  • "If you go back far enough, I guarantee that the defenders of cultural normalcy were terrified by the invention of the toaster ," retorts Joel Achenbach on the Washington Post Web site.

  • You're too terrified to speed up because the road is narrow and winds sharply around hillsides.

  • But columnist Auberon Waugh (son of Evelyn), writing in the Daily Telegraph, blamed the existence of such fake Santa Clauses on the influence of the United States and mentioned that, "according to an American psychologist called Professor Jim Hoot, the modern American child is so terrified by the experience that it should be seen as a form of child abuse."

  • Here, as in his other plays, he seems terrified that someone might accuse him of entertainment.


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